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Hacker shit. Some lone genius passing through systems intended to be secure for militaries and governments. It's not about details being stupid, that's to be expected. It's about the very fact of power imbalance.

Random characters challenging militaries and governments and just "quickly finding" some qualified assistance in doing that. And winning. You don't. You are an amateur and they are professionals. And if you want to do that, you are likely already under personalized surveillance.

That last thing is a trope from a free society where some people on the top are bad. And fighting them you can find help and learn, because in some sense you are protected, and guaranteed privacy and safety. There are no such free societies on our planet right now. The closest you can get is probably to join Hezbollah or some mafia, that is, well-established powerful organizations.

On the contrary, Luke Skywalker taking a lucky shot at a vulnerability that a team of engineers and military men, all of which were high-level Imperial defectors, with support from many planets of what is the Star Wars alternative of Western Europe and North America, had found by analyzing space station's stolen blueprints, using computers and what not, is realistic. Similarly to the Empire (at that moment with kinda democratic Senate and all) being fine with anyone on the way being murdered trying to contain such high-value corpus of information.

Again, I love Star Wars so much. A lot of the materials written in AotC and RotS time describe very well, in my modest opinion, how the real world oppression really works and how you can't really escape evil or defeat it. The best you can do is survive till that evil dies on its own, but the realistic best is planting the seeds for that time.

In general everything showing fighting your enemy as something easy, impressing upon audience that if it didn't work out in a month, then you just give up and do something more pleasant, deceiving yourself.

At the same time the sheer extent to which personal brilliance and hard work and persistence can change the world is often downplayed in movies. Drastic changes made by characters are attributed to magic or being in some unlikely situation. But the whole reason for previously described power imbalance is that professionals perpetuate their knowledge and understanding every day, and if one's persistent, one can beat them.

Yes, I like fiction about justice and fighting evil.

Pouring gas over everything and lighting it by tossing a lit cigarette into the puddle. It does not work that way.

There's this scene at the start of War of the Worlds where the hero races his classic muscle car up this tiny neighborhood street at full tilt, exhaust notes at full blast, and I think he even screeches the tires by slamming the brakes pulling into the driveway. Then he walks up to his neighbor and they're all chill with him. In any other world, the neighbors would have him in handcuffs.

Characters wake up with flawless hair and makeup, looking as fresh as ever :D :D :D

Guns that never need to be reloaded, even after hundreds of shots

Keanu Reeves with a sword, standing in the middle of a pile of bodies. Bad guy enters the room carrying a gun. Bad guy sees him and rather than shooting him from a safe distance, chooses to run towards him, still holding the gun out in front of him, shouting at him rather than shooting at him.

Boffins coming up with a magical new solution to a problem that they somehow know will 100% work despite having done zero experimentation or testing.